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It's called Excelsior.

It's historically been a working class Pinoy, Latino, Canto, and Black neighborhood.

It used to be very rough in the gangbanger kinda way.

It's kind of like how East San Jose is fairly clean, but it's good to be careful where you are depending on the time of night.

Sunnyvale and RWC used to be similar in that sense as well 15-20 years ago too.

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No, NW border of Excelsior is 280, so definitely not north of Monterrey Blvd. Broad strokes neighborhood is Twin Peaks area. That part of Twin Peaks is heavily influenced by historically affluent planned developments. Some of the more well known ones listed here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Residence_Parks.

I am not familiar with the history of some of the other planned tracts there but this map seems to suggest that area is mostly composed of master planned communities. https://sfrichmondreview.com/2023/01/10/local-author-and-his...

Ope. You're right. I didn't see north of Monterey. I need to read closer.

Used to be called War Zone, echoing its street names: Russia, Italy, etc

That might have been earlier than me, but I can see that

That was the 1950-70s I am told

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